Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slightly larger than a cigarette case, the new camera does everything but process film. It performs a split-second analysis of distance and brightness, sets the proper exposure, activates a flash if needed and advances the film while the flash recharges. The focal length is so short -12.5 mm - that everything from 4 ft. to infinity is in focus at all times, eliminating any need for a lens that turns and focuses. Two of the three new models can snap objects only 18 in. away...
...Freshman flash Scott Fusco, who had been unable to find his scoring touch in recent weeks, took a pass from Greg Olson (one goal, two assists) his second goal of the night past Big Red netminder Brian Hayward. The shot was first Hayward faced in the overtime, while Big Red forwards had kept Wade Lau (fours saves in OT) hopping and flopping for the first three minutes of the extra period...
...side. Individuals begin drifting toward the spot, until about 16 Harvard, Yale and MIT students are huddling around the drawing. Groups of bleary-eyed visitors, sporting green sweatshirts, green pants and hangovers, openly gape at the ritual. As if on cue, the huddlers turn and flash their t-shirts, each displaying a yellow pig on the front, and the number 17 on the back...
...drawing from the American trompe 1'oeil tradition begun in the 19th century by Peto and Harnett, Shaw casts objects-playing cards, books, tin cans, ax handles-in porcelain and then glazes them into a more than photographic accuracy of surface. Sometimes, though not often enough, a flash of real poetry appears in the midst of Shaw's virtuoso pedantry. Moonlight Goose, 1978, with its loving simulations of flaking paint and marbled paper, attains a wistful charm almost worthy of Joseph Cornell...
...high-flying co-captain and leading scorer Billy O'Dwyer, who has seven goals and 11 assists so far this season. He should be teamed on a line tonight with speedy Lee Blossom (5-6-11), slowed by injuries early on but now back at full flash, and freshman David Livingston...